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Well over here in the upper Mediterranean we have a small shark (max 1meter, but normally shorter) that we call catshark too ("gattuccio" in italian, means "small cat"), but it's a different species (Scyliorhinus canicula). This one is good to eat, we make grilled steaks, or use it as an ingredient to make a soup with clams, octopus, prawns and other mixed fish longtime stewed in tomato sauce. I guess your african one is not much different...


***EDIT: almost funny. After posting I did some search and found out that our "catshark/gattuccio" is called dogfish in english...So cat or dog? Bah.
Same thing happens with the Sunfish, that we italians call "moonfish" in our language (pesce luna: moon fish). It's easy to get twisted in translations...